Like the idea of more than 5,500 FREE NFB films at your fingertips? Visit the state-of-the-art Digital Viewing Stations at the NFB Mediatheque! Alone or with a friend, settle into one of the spacious and stylish digital viewing stations, where the flat-panel monitors put an endless array of hard-hitting documentaries, innovative animations, captivating shorts, new releases, and old favourites right at your fingertips—literally! With 16 digital viewing units equipped with touchscreen monitors and multiple search options, the NFB Mediatheque offers more than 5,500 films, available ON DEMAND for FREE!

When’s the last time you saw NFB classics like A Chairy Tale, Blinkity Blank, The Cat Came Back or The Sweater? Or Oscar® favourites like Ryan and The Danish Poet? With captivating documentaries, animations and new titles added weekly, there’s always something new to watch at the NFB Mediatheque.

OVER 5,500 FILMS AT YOUR FINGERTIPS

Settle into a custom screening on our Digital Viewing Stations. Experience hard-hitting documentaries, innovative animations, short films that are long on impact, new releases, archival footage, cinema classics and award winners of every genre.

New films include:

Weather Report (2008)
Brenda Longfellow
135 min.

Putting a face to the reality of global warming, the film illuminates the impact of recent climate change, delivering a new perspective to audiences worldwide. The question is no longer whether climate change is happening, but whether we can respond to the emergency before it's too late.

Namrata (2009)
Shazia Javed
9 min.

In this intensely personal short film, Namrata Gill – whose story was one of many real-life inspirations for Deepa Mehta's feature film Heaven on Earth – describes her six years in an abusive relationship, and how difficult leaving can be when you are part of a close-knit immigrant community.

The Socalled Movie (2010)
Garry Beitel
87 min.

The Socalled Movie is a dynamic kaleidoscopic portrait of Socalled, aka Josh Dolgin. He’s a multi-disciplinary musician and artist whose unique blend of klezmer, hip hop and funk is blasting through the boundaries that separate music of different cultures, eras and generations. Taking its cues from Socalled’s modus operandi, the documentary samples his work and offers up 18 entertaining, exquisitely edited short films about his constant creative process. Each film reveals something different, creating a nuanced picture of an individual who’s artistically fearless.